Speaker 1: Welcome to Unexplained Extra with me Richard McClane smith. For
Speaker 1: the weeks in between episodes, we look at the stories that,
Speaker 1: for one reason or other, didn't make it into the show.
Speaker 1: In last week's episode, What Hides Beneath, we looked at
Speaker 1: the infamous K two one nine incident and wandered at
Speaker 1: the many mysteries of the vast ocean deep. Some believe
Speaker 1: a mysterious underwater sound known as a quacker may hold
Speaker 1: the key to discovering what happened to the ill fated
Speaker 1: nuclear submarine. Thought to be the call of a large,
Speaker 1: undiscovered sea creature, or even a submersible alien spacecraft, the
Speaker 1: quacker is fast becoming a regular fixture in modern maritime folklore,
Speaker 1: but you may not be surprised to hear it is
Speaker 1: only one of many strange sounds to have been recorded
Speaker 1: from the depths of the planet's oceans, and there is
Speaker 1: one sound in particular that has given rise to some
Speaker 1: of the most terrifying theories around. Picked up by hydrophones
Speaker 1: deep in the Pacific, the sound, known as the Blue
Speaker 1: may yet prove the most extraordinary of them all. As
Speaker 1: the world slipped from the waking horrors of the Second
Speaker 1: World War into the murkier dimensions of the Cold War,
Speaker 1: the United States Navy were looking for the next opportunity
Speaker 1: to gain the upper hand. As a result, the Committee
Speaker 1: for Undersea Warfare was established in nineteen forty nine, with
Speaker 1: its primary objective to neutralize any possible underwater threat. Knowing
Speaker 1: that sound travels more than four times faster and further
Speaker 1: in water than it does in air, the solution was simple.
Speaker 1: A monitoring system was created whereby a vast array of
Speaker 1: underwater microphones dotted about the North Atlantic would be trained
Speaker 1: to pick up the tell tale low frequency hum of
Speaker 1: a submarine. The system was an unmitigated success, but what
Speaker 1: they hadn't planned for with the extraordinary array of sounds
Speaker 1: that didn't match those of a submarine or in fact
Speaker 1: anything that had been heard before. After the establishment of
Speaker 1: the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration also known as NOAH
Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy, the Navy's hydrophones were co opted into
Speaker 1: a vast government research program. Over the years, the program,
Speaker 1: which focuses on the conditions of the ocean and the
Speaker 1: atmosphere of the Earth, has recorded many incredible sounds from
Speaker 1: the communication of whales to the ominous rumbles of volcanic tremors. However,
Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety seven, a set of microphones from the
Speaker 1: Equatorial Pacific Ocean region detected a sound that was like
Speaker 1: no other recorded before, picked up just west of the
Speaker 1: southern tip of South America. Here is the recording of
Speaker 1: the sound, sped up by sixteen times to make it
Speaker 1: more audible. Noah scientist doctor Christopher Fox was under no
Speaker 1: illusions about the origins of such a sound, primarily that
Speaker 1: it was not man made, but also that it was
Speaker 1: organic in nature, possibly even that of an animal. The
Speaker 1: suggestion was staggering. If the sound was indeed animal in nature,
Speaker 1: it would belong to a creature the likes of which
Speaker 1: we have never seen before, With the sound being several
Speaker 1: times louder than any marine creature previously recorded, whatever was
Speaker 1: making it would be several times larger than the blue whale. However,
Speaker 1: any question of a huge, unknown sea creature lurking in
Speaker 1: the deep has since been dismissed by Noah and Oregon
Speaker 1: State University seismologist Robert Zayak. Speaking to Wide Magazine in
Speaker 1: two thousand and twelve, he explained the sound was an
Speaker 1: actual fact. The noise created by the cracking and melting
Speaker 1: of sea ice. And yet not everybody has been wholly
Speaker 1: satisfied by the explanation. And there is one suggestion that
Speaker 1: has since caught the public imagination. Are you always taking
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Speaker 1: slash Unexplained podcast. Located roughly one thousand miles from the
Speaker 1: source of the Bloop Sound is a region of the
Speaker 1: South Pacific known as the Oceanic Pole of Inaccessibility. The
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Speaker 1: murky waters of the Deep, for it is the point
Speaker 1: of the ocean located furthest from any sign of land,
Speaker 1: or at least any land that belongs to the world
Speaker 1: we know. For if you were able to dive under
Speaker 1: the water, delving deeper into the bottomless depths, you might
Speaker 1: find yourself coming upon a strange coast line of mingled
Speaker 1: mud ooze and weedy Cyclopean masonry, which could be nothing
Speaker 1: less than the tangible substance of Earth's supreme terror, otherwise
Speaker 1: known as the Nightmare Corpse City of Real Year. There deeper,
Speaker 1: still imprisoned within the walls of the sunken city, sleeps
Speaker 1: a creature like nothing before seen on this Earth. A
Speaker 1: monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus like
Speaker 1: head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly,
Speaker 1: rubbery looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet,
Speaker 1: and long narrow wings behind Cluloo, one of the great
Speaker 1: old ones. Could this creature, drawn from the darkest corner
Speaker 1: of H. P. Lovecraft's mind, be the true source of
Speaker 1: the mysterious bloop? Some believe so. Perhaps if you listen
Speaker 1: hard enough, you might catch that strange sound hidden in
Speaker 1: the wind, the chant of worshippers huddled together in furthest
Speaker 1: corners of the dark, uttering those unutterable words. While in
Speaker 1: his house at real air, dead Clulo waits dreaming. All
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